Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-04
SUMMER MATERIALS.
Moderately Expensive Dress-Good' In SILK
Wool and ALI Wool Canvas.

Wool and ALL Wool Canvas.
There are many new and pretty ma
terials in wool and silk or all silk and
all wool; but they possess Que uniform
characteristic, they are soft, pliable,
gentle in tone and texture, light in
weight and fall in easy folds. Itseems
quite impossible to revive the stiff and
wiry alpacas, the more stately poplin
or even the useful ode beige" We
hear occasionally of these materials
being employed fashionably, but they
are not seen either in the shops or on
the street. The materials in demand
are the fine cloths, the camels hairs,
the thin woods, the cambrics, the
gingham's, the soft silks and the love.
ly new mixtures of silk and wool
known as benzaline, pean de sole and
the like.
In some of these colors are united SO
as to produce the most artistic effects
as the "Gobelins," for example,
which blend gray, green and gold; oil
gray, blue and gold exquisitely. The
new designs and combinations show
fantastic differences only to be recog
nizcd by experienced eyes When
plaids are used, for instance. they are
employed for the skirt, and a smaller
plaid or plain material for the bodice
and drapery. When stripe is used,
however, this is generally reversed. a
solid material is reserved for the skirt,
which may have A stripe let in as
panel il the design admits Of il; but the
upper part of the dress. basque or pol
onaise is of the striped fabric, with
vest or rerers of the plain, or what
ever mounting the design calls for
The newest Scotch ginghams show
largo plaided patterns for the skirt
and smaller plaids, checks or sole
colors for the bodice and drapcry
Some Of the new foulards ire cl arm
ing. The ground is co,ePd with d
small, all-over, irregular, puzzle pat
tern in olive or green, with minute
dots in old gold or blue or white, sci
like little points or nails in the pat
tern. This design conceaIs the hgh
ground and impaIts general tone o
color and character which foulard
| often lack and renders them more
avail able than when printed in small
detached figures upon light grounds
Light grounds are not now tolerated
! in materials that are used for any out
| door purpose.
In the windows Of many OF the DIR.
| goods shops upon Broadway and else
| where are mountains Of all-wool can
vas cloth in lovely light shades OF vel
low, stone or gray. They are marke'
down to twenty-five cents per yard
vet when made by fashionable dress
maker the cost of canvas dress vii
come up to seyonty-iive dollars ut TIA
very least. The reason is, that a com
plete dress is made of silk underneat
this one of canvas wool and that 1t
| iinishod--so far rs the bodice is cou
corncd with even more care than n
ordinary silk bodice All the fitting |
done in the silk lining, all the seam
are taken in this and not in the out
side, which is simply gathered in t
the form and tackled to the sides of til
silk front, which is finished MS Il vest
plain, plated or with piece OF orien
nj embroidery, If the dress is trimme
in this way.
These canvas materials are hant
some aud durable; but of themselves
they lack character. They can /
made over fine cotton Saline of I'll
shade and trimmed with contrast cole
in velvet, effectively and much less e.
pensiyely, - Jenny tune, IN ChicdS
journal,